Bobbie in Movieland

Bobbie in Movieland

Author: Finn, Francis James, 1859-1928

Year: 1921

CONTENTS I In Which the First Chapter Is Within a Little of Being the Last 9 II Tending to Show That Misfortunes Never Come Singly 18 III It Never Rains but It Pours 31 IV Mrs. Vernon All but Abandons Hope 44 V A New Way of Breaking into the Movies 58 VI Bobby Endeavors to Show the Astonished Compton How to Behave 72 VII The End of a Day of Surprises 81 VIII Bobby Meets an Enemy on the Boulevard and a Friend in the Lantry Studio 92 IX Showing That Imitation Is not Always the sincerest flattery, — and Returning to the Misadventures of Bobby's Mother 104 X Bobby, Assisted by Peggy, Demonstrates a Method of Observing of Silence, and Celebrates a Red-letter Day 114 XI The End of One Scenario and the Outlining of Compton's Great Idea 128 XII Bobby Becomes Famous Overnight 138 XIII Bernadette's Temperament Delays the Scenario, and Mrs. Vernon Maxes Two Children Happy 150 XIV Mrs. Vernon Attends a Moving-Picture Show and Finds in It a Great Lesson Unthouoht of by the Author 160 XV Compton's Great Scenario Is Finished Not a Moment Too Soon 166 XVI Containing Nothing but Happy Explanations and a Still Happier Love Scene 180 XVII The Four Children Arouse Suspicion, Until With The Most Moment